"Mangini didnāt just flip on Belichick, costing his former mentor a celebrated image that has been reflected in a shelf-full of Lombardi Trophies, as well as a $500,000 fine and a prime draft pick. He did more. He also humiliated the respected Patriots owner and league power player Robert K. Kraft.

"That sin has left Mangini toxic to some team executives. After all, would you trust him? Is there anyone ā a player, assistant, general manager, owner or mascot ā that he wouldnāt betray in a pinch?"

I stopped considering Selena Roberts' writing to be worth my time with her work on the Duke lacrosse case. That said, I did catch this one, and I couldn't help but think how little she has learned about the NFL "partnership". It's Lord of the Flies with million dollar toys and network television.

any more details on what it said...you have to subscribe to read the whole thing?

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I'd post the whole thing just for the pleasure of jamming it to the Times, but I don't imagine the mods here would appreciate it. Instead, I'll give you the first and last lines and let you figure out the middle.

Calling out his mentor lacked thought, though. It is not the wisest idea to mess with the N.F.L.ās version of Zeus. The wisdom of Manginiās decision to flip Bill will play out all season ā and maybe beyond. So far, itās Coach Hoodie, 2-0; and Coach Hoodwink, 0-2.

Yup. Mangini better hope he stays with the Jets for a long time, because if he washes out, and can't get a HC job, he'll be busted down to the NCAA. What HC would want him as an assistant? He's beyond toxic, he's nuclear. What a f'ing dumb, dumb career move, and for what gain? The loss of a draft pick of a division rival and to piss on the leg of your former employer.

Here is the entire article....lifted from JetsInsider. Delete if you must

Mangini Risks Fury of Scorned Hoodie
By SELENA ROBERTS
There is Coach Hoodie, and then there is Coach Hoodwink.

Coach Hoodie is the Patriotsā Bill Belichick. He answers with growls, is hardwired to be ruthless, and would have lost a congeniality contest to the dearly departed Leona Helmsley. He comes as is: obsessive, cold, and brazen enough to have cheated with his video spy games out in the open of a sideline.

Coach Hoodwink is the Jetsā Eric Mangini. He replies to questions in his library voice, visits Sesame Street in his downtime and readily reveals his soft, fatherly side. He comes off as duplicitous: paranoid, brutal, and nakedly ambitious enough to have double-crossed the organization that nurtured his career.

Mangini didnāt just flip on Belichick, costing his former mentor a celebrated image that has been reflected in a shelf-full of Lombardi Trophies, as well as a $500,000 fine and a prime draft pick. He did more. He also humiliated the respected Patriots owner and league power player Robert K. Kraft.

That sin has left Mangini toxic to some team executives. After all, would you trust him? Is there anyone ā a player, assistant, general manager, owner or mascot ā that he wouldnāt betray in a pinch?

Bad karma can be a career killer. It took Ted Nolan years to land his current gig as the coach of the Islanders after he was blackballed, in part because he was labeled a traitor of management during his Sabres days.

False righteousness can boomerang. The track coach Trevor Graham once said he anonymously mailed the syringe that started the Balco circus in an effort to clean up the sport, but a grand jury witness told a different tale: He did it to implicate athletes and coaches that his runners competed against. Graham is awaiting trial on charges that he lied to federal agents about the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs.

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Videogate isnāt a criminal issue ā itās more of a punch line by now ā but it does cast shadows on the leagueās integrity.

There is no doubt Belichickās video trickery was wrong, hubristic and a below-the-belt maneuver of reckless proportion. Commissioner Roger Goodell ā the N.F.L.ās overtaxed moral warden ā was right in delivering a punitive blow as a scare tactic to a league full of teams that seek a competitive edge by tapping into their inner MacGyvers. Even Kraft understood Goodellās logic, even if it took him a while.

āI must tell you I was quite upset and perturbed when I saw the penalty, because I didnāt think that the incident deserved this kind of punishment,ā Kraft told NBC on Sunday night. āOver the last couple of days, Iāve been thinking about it and have cooled down. I realized he wasnāt just sending a message to the New England Patriots, he was sending it to all 32 teams.ā

Belichick wasnāt alone in this race to the bottom of sports ethics. Mangini was very likely, at one point in his Patriot days, the spy who loved Hoodie.

How will we ever know? Maybe the lens will be the judge. In order to eliminate any competitive advantage Belichick might have tucked away in his film files, the Patriots said yesterday that they would comply with Goodellās request to provide their videotape archive.

How about popcorn and a movie with Goodell? Imagine whatās on those old tapes. Is that Mangini holding the Cheat Cam in 2004? Is that Mangini wiretapping Bill Parcellsās headset in 2003?

A question to Jets officials yesterday about Manginiās possible role in New Englandās spy ring was greeted with the organization mantra: āItās a league matter.ā

The matter has revealed more about Mangini than Belichick. Already, Mangini was known for attempting to raid the Patriotsā cupboards upon his exit in January 2006. He slithered around Foxborough as if he were pilfering Whoville, trying to lift players, assistants and secretaries.

He wanted everything but the picture hooks on the walls. He also wanted to claim Belichickās mind as his own intellectual property.

But who knew how far he would go for a gotcha of Belichick? Maybe Manginiās betrayal was a little something he learned from Belichickās school of calculated callousness. In a way, the two almost deserve each other. Someday, Belichick and Mangini may look up and realize teams can win ā and play in Super Bowls ā on the strength of a coachās humanity, not his ability to humiliate.

Belichick is who he is. Mangini is the one with an identity crisis. He wants to portray himself as the anti-Bill ā oozing charm when talking family values ā and yet he longs to be Hoodie, to be known as wickedly smart.

Calling out his mentor lacked thought, though. It is not the wisest idea to mess with the N.F.L.ās version of Zeus. The wisdom of Manginiās decision to flip Bill will play out all season ā and maybe beyond. So far, itās Coach Hoodie, 2-0; and Coach Hoodwink, 0-2.

Just wait until Eric the Rat keeps losing and his own players start to tune him out when the "mystique" of him being BB's protege starts to wear off and they start to see what a mediocre coach he truly is on top of being a disloyal rat. Oh wait, just wait until they get crushed by 4 touchdowns in Foxboro later this year and completely gets outcoached again.

The matter has revealed more about Mangini than Belichick. Already, Mangini was known for attempting to raid the Patriotsā cupboards upon his exit in January 2006. He slithered around Foxborough as if he were pilfering Whoville, trying to lift players, assistants and secretaries.

I'm glad this was printed. I can't stand it every time I read that Belichick snubbed Mangini because he's an immature jerk who didn't like that Mangini dared to leave to coach the archrival Jets.

It's not that he left, it was his manner of leaving. I mean the rat-bastid was trying to pilfer staff before officially accepting the Jets gig...i.e. while he was still being paid by Bob Kraft

He truly is a duplicitous scumbag. In the military, he'd be shot by his own troops.